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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

List of Things to Protest

I can use some help here. But so far, off the top of my head, I have this short list below of things that Muslims worldwide or, at least, regionally should have protested or be protesting (peaceably, we hope). The list includes things of the recent past and of the present. By necessity, some of the items must be oversimplified. If I left anything out, please advise me.

3 Comments:

hamidm said...

Honor killings in Palestine and Pakistan and the bizarre circumstances in which they occur. In Palestine A Muslim village fighting w/ Christian village over this crap. You've heard about the villager raped in Pakistan no doubt. While these events have no basis in religion, Muslims should be the first to condemn them. Maybe i'm deaf but I don't hear that much clamor from our communities about this.

tortures in many prison - on muslims all around the muslim world, prohibition to wear a veil in turkish universities, in universities of Uzbekistan, Russia, Azerbajan. Domestic violence in Muslim families, in short protesting against whole muslim ummah - cuz we are as strong as our weakest link - protesting the whole ummah on not acting according to sunna of prophet Muhammad s.a.w.

I protest mass ignorance and apathy.I cannot purpose the exact surah and ayat in Al Quran but I do recall a prompt to honor with the words (translated) that death is better than oppression. The life of this world is but a test and trial for salvation purposes. How can the strength of a belief, faith be borne out if not act upon. Oh ye of little faith. I am willing to follow but where are the leaders?

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Born and raised in the Chicago area, Ibrahim is a professor of journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar. His research interests include the intersection of media and culture; literary journalism; media in the Arab world; and religion and media. He is also a journalist and a writer of non-fiction and fiction. His articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, both print and online. He has also worked closely on translation projects of the Quran. And he finds it very interesting to write about himself in the third person like this. It's possible he'll revise this introduction and be more personable. But "not now!" he says. (Email: fromclay1@yahoo.com)